Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft Leibniz-Gemeinschaft

Jabberwocky Words in Linguistics

Organizer(s) Adina Camelia Bleotu (ZAS) & Deborah Foucault (UMass Amherst)
Start of event 11.02.2022, 13.45 o'clock
End of event 12.02.2022, 23.00 o'clock
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The workshop tackles nonce words both from the point of view of linguistic creativity, as well as from a methodological point of view (i.e., how nonce words are used as a tool in linguistic experiments in order to shed light on various theoretical issues). 

Invited speakers

  • Eve Clark (Stanford University)
  • Jennifer Culbertson (University of Edinburgh) and Alexander Martin (Université de Paris)
  • Anouk Dieuleveut (LLF Paris), Ailis Cournane (NYU), and Valentine Hacquard (University of Maryland)
  • Brian Dillon (UMass Amherst) and Jon Burnsky (UMass Amherst)
  • Heidi Harley (University of Arizona)
  • Jeff Lidz (University of Maryland)
  • Letitia Naigles (University of Connecticut)
  • Emma Nguyen (University of California, Irvine)
  • Tom Roeper (UMass Amherst)
  • Kristen Syrett (Rutgers University)
  • Lyn Tieu (Western Sydney University)